Andover: Gould and Newman, 1839. Hardcover. Seventh edition. Leather backed marbled boards, good copy, light general wear, some foxing throughout, but solidly bound. 311 (1) pp.
Copenhagen: American Pictures Foundation, 1985. First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9.75 x 8 inches, publisher's black cloth in dust jacket, book very good, jacket also very good, light edgewear, especially to top edge. Inscribed: "To Jessica & Samuel with love & inspiration. Jacob Holdt." 302 pp, heavily illustrated, some in.....
New York: Doubleday, 1992. First Printing. Hardcover. Publsher's boards in dust jacket, very good. Inscribed to Dan Simpson very warmly: "Another caper...another adventure...another dreamworld...Thanks for all your help. I owe ya dinner at the restaurant of your choice. All the best, Robert. Kinshasa, May, 1997." Simpson was the United States.....
Winona Lake, Indiana: General Missionary Board of the Free Methodist Church, Ca. 1980. Wraps. 11 x 9 inches, wraps with plastic comb binding, very good, light wear. 204 & 159 pp. Uncommon in the trade. Kirundi, also known as Rundi, is a Bantu language spoken by some 9 million people.....
Paris: Maurice Faureau, 1977. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, very good. 125 pp, illustrated. On the cultivation of wine grapes and machinery used for growing and processing grapes.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962. First American Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, red cloth, very good, no jacket, front inner hinge lightly shaken and with neat repair, text otherwise clean and unmarked. 889 pp.
Bulgaria (?): Sofia Press, 1974. First Printing. Hardcover. Translated from Bulgarian by Kevin Ireland, edited by Theodora Atannasova. Cloth in dust jacket, very good, light wear and soil to jacket. 85 pp, bilingual. Botev (1848-1876) was a soldier and a poet. In 1876, as captain of a detachment of 200.....
San Francisco: The Honey Wine Company, 2013. First Printing. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, fine copy. 88 pp, illustrated with drawings, some in color, with stiff one page flyer inserted about the Bee d'vine honey wine and is distinctive flavors, available in brut and demi sec. With note to Elizabeth (Downer), erstwhile.....
Mostar: Biskupijski ordinarijat Mostar, 1993. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, cloth in dust jacket, very good. 361 pp. Book in Croatian on theological disputes and commonalities regarding the eucharist, sacraments, etc.
(Ouham, Central African Republic?): Comité d'Animation Culturelle de l'Ouham, 1992. First Printing. Wraps. 8.25 x 5.75 inches, stiff pictorial wraps with plastic comb binding. Very good, minor stains to covers. 46 (2) pp, with illustrations and 12 original mounted color photos, mainly of "la calebasse" - the calabash gourd, with.....
(Ouham, Central African Republic?): Comité d'Animation Culturelle de l'Ouham, 1992. First Printing. Wraps. 8.25 x 5.75 inches, stiff pictorial wraps with plastic comb binding. 46 (2) pp, with illustrations and 12 original mounted color photos, mainly of "la calebasse" - the calabash gourd, with explorations of its cultural and mythical.....
Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. First Printing. Hardcover. Cloth backed boards in dust jacket, about fine. Inscribed by the publisher (can't read his name) to Dan Simpson in 2000, "friend, mentor, raconteur -- and ambassador to the far corners of the world." Simpson was the United States Ambassador to the.....
Siena: Enoteca Italiana Permanente, Ca. 1990. Wraps. 8vo, wraps, 107 pp, very good, printed on tan paper, rear wrap has bottom third faded. List of the varieties etc. on sale and to be tasted at this shop/museum/gallery/tasting-room housed in a medieval fortress in Siena, with a wide selection of wines.....
London: Tasker Publications, 1995. First Printing. Wraps. 8 x 8.25 inches, wraps, very good, signed by author. 139 pp, illustrated, some plates in color. Story of the 40,000 acre ranch in the northern foothills of Mt. Kenya and its battle to save rhinos and protect wildlife.
Salisbury, UK: Antique & General Trading, Ca. 1980. Wraps. 7.75 x 6 inches, wraps, 14 pp, very good, light wear.
London: William Pickering, 1835. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 7.5 x 4.75 inches, full deep red levant morocco by Bayntun, raised bands, gilt stamped on spine, elaborate gilt dentelles, a fine bright copy, with 4 handcolored "miniatures" by Costello after medieval images. A truly lovely copy in a splendid binding. A......
Philadelphia: George W. Gorton, (1843). First Printing. Hardcover. Large 8vo, 9.5 x 6.25 inches, contemporary full ruddy brown calf, black gilt spine label, very good, light general rubbing and wear to leather, moderate foxing throughout, light strengthening to inner hinges, contents complete, including frontispiece of Market Street in Philadelphia and.....
New York: Brentano's, (1898). First American Printing. Hardcover. 12mo, 6.25 x 4 inches, decorative olive cloth, very good, light wear, inscription from Atlanta dated 5/15/1899 on flyleaf. The Doubleday McClure edition of 1899 is commonly thought of as the first American separate edition of this classic tale, but we have.....
Boston: Thayer and Eldridge, 1860-1861. Hardcover. Third edition of Leaves of Grass, expanded. 8vo, publisher's burgundy pebbled cloth, gilt spine, embossed butterfly on spine. Frontispiece with no engraver identified and no publisher's imprint on copyright page. Nearly fine, sharp bright copy, one tiny abrasion to bottom front corner of spine.....
St. Louis: Privately Printed, 1908. Hardcover. 8vo, half vellum and light brown paper-covered boards, very good, light wear and soil, quite a bit of foxing/offsetting to endpapers, especially rear endpaper. No. 216 of 250 privately printed by Bixby, the owner of original manuscripts, initialed by Bixby and also inscribed by.....
(St. Louis): W. K. Bixby, (1905). First Printing. Hardcover. One of a limited number (this is no. 321) privately printed by Bixby, with bound in limitation slip initialed in pen by Bixby, also inscribed by him on flyleaf to J. J. Turner. Includes facsimile of typed letter, 2 pp, by.....
Boston: The Bibliophile Society, 1904. First Printing. Hardcover. 2 volumes, royal 8vo, 10 x 8 inches, full vellum, very good, minimal soil to covers, beautiful condition. Each volume inscribed by Bixby and with laid in typed letter from him dated Dec. 16, 1904 to J. J. Turner in Pittsburgh. Of.....
London: Chapman and Hall / Bradbury and Evans, 1843-1848. First Printing. Hardcover. 5 volumes, uniformly bound in deep burgundy morocco, gilt ruled and decorated, five raised bands, gilt decorated spine compartments with inlaid green holly leaves, very good or better, original cloth spines and covers mounted and bound in at.....
London: Chatto and Windus, 1908. Second Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, 7.5 x 5.25 inches, full gilt decorated vellum with central image of a chained and muzzled wild boar and tree stump. Unfortunately there is a brownish dampstain to the first 55-plus pages, heaviest at the beginning and diminishing to nothing by.....
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New Orleans, LA: Garden District Press, 2006. Paperback. Inscribed by Otero to poet Robert Lima + laid in handwritten note! RARE! Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome wraps and tight binding, text clean and unmarked.